In a message dated 1/5/2008 3:09:46 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It was only a question! (-: I certainly didn't mean to upset the status quo. ((--:: >> Don't know what the status quo is. Tuning is an art form suffered by pressures of cost benefit and business requirements. It's different in just about every shop and industry. The old adage 'the more you know, the more you know you don't know' interjects itself frequently. There are classes and curriculums dedicated to performance tuning, analysis, modeling and workload synthesis. Cheryl Watson at _www.watsonwalker.com_ (http://www.watsonwalker.com) and Dr. H. Pat Ardis at Performance Associates sell their observations and analysis in the form of Newsletters and White papers. SHARE is a good venue for who's doing what and what they've achieved in real world situations. **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

